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Write window

This window will appear when you choose to write a new message or
answer or forward an already existing message. You can open TWO Write
windows at a time. The Write window consists of three sheets, laid out
as shown below. The menu bar is the same for each sheet.

Prepares the message for sending, moves it to the Outgoing folder
and tries to send the mail at once. For this option to work
correctly, there must be a TCP/IP stack running and online.

Send later

Prepares the message for sending and copies it to the Outgoing
folder. Use this button when working offline.

Hold

The message will be prepared as described in Send later and copied
to the Outgoing folder, but will be held back and NOT sent. Use
this button for unfinished messages, e.g. if you'd like to make
some additions to the e-mail at a later time, and not risk them to
be sent out by mistake.

Cancel

Use this button if you've changed your mind. BEWARE: All input
made in this window will be lost. But don't worry, a security
requester will popup before YAM really discards any modifications
you have made. (It won't show up if you haven't made any
modifications in the message itself, though).

Message sheet

Above the large text editor area there are two header fields and a toolbar.

To

Insert here the main recipient you wish to send the actual message
to. You can use names or aliases from the address book or even
full e-mail addresses in case the recipient does not exist in the
address book. If you wish to enter several recipients, you have to
separate them by inserting commas.

There are several ways of importing here any recipient which can
be found in your address book -- just select the method you feel
more comfortable with:

click on the pop-up button to the right, thereby opening the
address book. Now you can either double click on any entry
you want, or drag ? it over to the text field holding the left
mouse button.

while the address book window is open, you can click the To:
button there to automatically add the current entry to the
To: field of your message. To add several recipients, just
select them one by one and click the To: button in turn.

lastly, a newly introduced and more elegant method is to just
start typing the alias, first name or email address of your
recipient in the To: field. This way you are quickly
presented with a dropdown list of the possible matches, taken
from your address book.

<Shift-Return> adds only the recipient address and drops the
real name, whilst pressing <Return> without selecting a recipient
will add the first match in the dropdown list. Both techniques
can be combined.

If YAM cannot find a name or alias you've inserted manually into
the To: field, you will get an error report as soon as you try to
send [later] or hold your message. Please double check your
spelling, or just use one of the selection methods outlined above.

Example:

jdoe, boss@…

Subject

What the mail is all about. When a mail is answered, there will be
a Re: inserted in front of the original subject, whereas when
forwarded a (fwd) will be added at the end.

Internal editor

YAM uses the efficient MUI class TextEditor.mcc for message
handling. Many aspects of the editor, such as keybindings,
spellchecking or fonts can be changed in the TextEditor sheet of the
MUI configuration . Although you can modify the keybindings, here
is a list of the important default settings in TextEditor 15.9:

<Control-Up> go to the start of the text
<Control-Down> go to the end of the text
<Control-Left> go to the start of the line
<Control-Right> go to the end of the line
<Alt-Up> previous page
<Alt-Down> next page
<Alt-Left> previous word
<Alt-Right> next word
<RAmiga-x> cut
<RAmiga-c> copy
<RAmiga-v> paste
<RAmiga-z> undo
<RAmiga-RShift-z> redo
<Command-Help> suggest a word
<Del> delete the character
<Shift-Backspace> delete to start of line
<Shift-Del> delete to end of line
<Alt-Backspace> delete to start of word
<Alt-Del> delete to end of word
<Alt-Tab> quit editor

Attachment sheet

You can add one or more files to your message. This way you can send
binary files such as archives, pictures, etc. via e-mail. You can choose
the method of encoding (MIME or UUencoded) and write a comment for each
file. Files can be archived automatically to reduce the size of the
resulting message.

Buttons and Gadgets

You can select one or more files, which will be added as new
attachments to the list. YAM recognizes over 20 filetypes
automatically and will fill in the MIME type field accordingly.

Pack & add

By adding files this way, they will be archived with e.g. LhA, LZX
or ZIP before being actually attached to the message. Select the
files you would like to add to the archive and then enter an
archive name. You can define the archiver in the configuration
window, under Miscellaneous .

Delete

Removes the selected entries from the list.

Display

Displays the selected entry using one of the programs contained in
the MIME viewers list. The program used by default is MultiView.

Encoding

For normal use you should encode your files using MIME
(Base64/QP). YAM uses quoted printable encoding for text files and
Base64 for binary files. If the recipient isn't able to decode
messages in MIME format (because his mailer does not support
this), you can also UUencode the files. Messages containing
UUencoded files are still in MIME multipart/mixed format, but
those attachments can be extracted from the message using a
UUdecoder such as UUxT. A message generated by YAM may contain
UUencoded attachments as well as attachments in Base64 format.

MIME type

As long as YAM recognizes the filetype of the attachment, the
correct MIME type will be inserted automatically, otherwise the
default setting (application/octet-stream) will be used. Before
defining a new MIME type, please check that is isn't already part
of the pop-up list.

Header fields

Copies to

The recipients listed here will receive a copy of the message.
See also the explanation about the To: field given for the
Message sheet .

Hidden copies to

The recipients listed here will receive a copy of the message;
however, unlike the recipients listed in Copies to, they won't
appear in the message headers. This is useful if you want to
send someone a copy of a message without the other recipient(s)
knowing.

From

Pretty obvious, really! YAM will fill this in with your address,
but you might want to change the way your real name appears.

Reply to

This setting is also valid only for the current message and will
be inserted instead of the usual "Reply-To:" address as specified
in the program settings. Leave this blank unless it needs to be
different from the e-mail address in the "From:" header.

Additional header

If for any reason it should become necessary to add one or more
special header lines to a message, you can enter these here.
Several lines must be separated by inserting '\n'. YAM will
prepend the entered headers with X-YAM-Header- in the resulting
message.

Example: Keywords: Amiga, YAM\nPassword: CuriosityKilledTheCat

Send options

Delete after sending

Activate this option if you want the message to be deleted right
after being transmitted, instead of being copied to the 'Sent'
folder.

Disposition Notification

Activate this option to request the recipient's e-mail program to
let you know about what the recipient did with your message, e.g.
if the message has been read by the recipient or if the recipient
has deleted or forwarded it. Please note that there are only a
handful of e-mail programs which support this function, as well as
the fact that the recipient might forbid the sending of any status
report on e-mails. Therefore, not getting any information even with
this option in use does not necessarily mean that the message has
not been read. The command to send a status report is contained
in the Disposition-Notification-To: header field. At the time of
writing this document, the Internet standard for Message Disposition
Notifications (MDN) was still being formulated.

Add personal info

Check this option to create a special X-SenderInfo: header
containing personal data like your postal address, phone number,
homepage, date of birth or URL of your picture. If the recipient
works with YAM too, (s)he will be able to create an address book
entry and fill it with your data. To get this to work, add an
entry in your address book containing your data (YAM will find
your entry based on the email address). If one exists, enter
the WWW address of a small photo of yourself in the "address book"
section of the configuration.

Importance

Specify here how important the message is for the recipient.
Messages noted as important will usually be displayed with an
exclamation mark in the status line and put into first place by
automatic mail sorting. The level of importance is stored in
the Importance: header.

Signature

Here you can replace the standard signature by one of the alternative
signatures, or switch it off completely for this message.

Security

Select here which security measures you want to take for this message.

none: Normal mail transfer.
sign: The message will be signed with your PGP public key and saved in multipart/signed format. The text of the message will be readable without PGP.
encrypt: The message will be encrypted using the recipient's PGP key and saved in multipart/encrypted format.
sign and encrypt: This is a combination of the two previous options, allowing the recipient to check the sender's identity.
send anonymously: The mail will be sent using an ANON service, so the sender will stay anonymous.
default: The mail will use whatever security measures have been selected for this recipient in the address book, or "none" if this recipient cannot be found there.

Glossary

YAM's Glossary acts as a place to collect blocks of text which you
may use fairly frequently, such as templates for letters, greeting
phrases or frequently asked questions. The text can be as long as
desired, extending over several lines. Using the Edit/Glossary menu
item or the <RAmiga-D> shortcut you can go straight from the
internal editor into the glossary. Each entry has a name (e.g. "ys"
for "Yours sincerely") which you can see in the left-hand part of the
window. Click on the name and you can edit the entry in the right-hand
side of the window. A double click on the name pastes the text block at
the current cursor position and then closes the window.

Function of the buttons

New

Creates a new entry in the glossary.

Add selection

Creates a new entry in the glossary using the block marked in the
text editor. If no block is currently marked, YAM will try to
paste the contents of the clipboard.

Delete

Deletes the selected entry from the glossary.

Paste

Pastes the highlighted entry into the text editor, at the current
cursor position.